One distinct disadvantage both parties is suffering from (hence the voters as well) is not having the very best candidates for the job.

When the primary criteria that most want to talk about is experience and change...clearly none of the candidates excel in either.

We know for sure that if one is a part of the existing system they do not have the ability to change it. They have been a part of it for too long. They know why it needs to stay like it is. They are part of the non representative representative group, that only needs a constituency to get re elected....NOTHING MORE!!!

So in many respects experience is an over worked ideal that in the Presidential race, IMHO, adds no value to decision making....ours as voters and theirs as to whether they can. The real measures of accountability, capability and accomplishment some how never seem to make the agenda.

Since non are President or VP incumbents......NONE are experienced in that regard.
All the candidates are politicians....3 out of 4 are lawyers...none of which qualifies as relevent experience to be an appropriate candidate for their respective positions.

I for one would like to hear more of what they think they have accomplished....what they are capable of doing....who they really are VS the prime time prepared actors we only get to see.

All the speeches, debates, conventions, commercials are scripted, canned, rehearsed, prepared by a multitude of staff.....so NONE of those presentations are really the individual.

I need to know more that that. I certainly need to know more than the partisan parroting. I want to know what the individual(s) are capable of doing when the next terrorist event takes place in America...remember the terrorists have promised it will be bigger than, more spectacular than and claim more lives than 9/11. Too many Americans have forgotten....the terrorists make good on their promises.
The response of the one in office cannot be scripted...or made up to look good...and it can't be done by the staffers...we better have some one there that has the CAPABILITY to handle...because NONE HAVE THE SO CALLED MUCH DEBATED EXPERIENCE on this all important future event!!!!!!
And of course we all hope and pray it does not happen....but It has been promised by those who have made good on their promises in the past.

That is what I worry about!

BTK